Google surprise of the day!

By default, anyone on Google+ will be able to send any users in their circles direct email messages.

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Search for keyword “gmail” on Google. The top result says “Gmail – Email from Google,” and beneath that are two other sub-results, “Email” on the left, and the “Gmail – Google” on the right. Click on Email (on the left). Surprise!

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The story behind this strange happening is that apparently Google and Google Plus went down. This is a strange bug that resulted. Techcrunch says:

David S. Peck is getting a lot of emails. In a glitch possibly related to the massive Gmail outage underway right now, there’s an odd bug in Google search which is pointing users directly to his personal email address. The address appears in a “Compose” window that pops up when the top search result for Gmail is clicked. Yes, it’s bizarre. Very, very bizarre

Many users noticed that Gmail had gone down about an hour ago but this strange event has only just been identified

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